Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, easy simmered taro roots and squid. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Easy Simmered Taro Roots and Squid is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Easy Simmered Taro Roots and Squid is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have easy simmered taro roots and squid using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Simmered Taro Roots and Squid:
- Prepare 1 whole squid Squid
- Take 10 Taro root
- Make ready 2 thin slices' worth ★Ginger (shredded)
- Take 2 tbsp ★Soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp ★Mirin
- Take 1/2 tbsp ★Sake
- Get 1 tbsp ★Sugar
- Make ready 400 ml Dashi stock
- Make ready 6 Green vegetables such as string beans
Steps to make Easy Simmered Taro Roots and Squid:
- Remove the guts and cartilage from the squid and wash the squid. Cut the suckers off of the tentacles one at a time, holding each of them. Cut the body into 1 cm rings. Peel the satoimo, and cut large ones in half.
- (Boil it until it looks like the photo). Put 50 ml of the dashi stock into a pan with the ★ ingredients and bring to the boil. Once boiled, add the squid and simmer/fry it for about 2 minutes. Once done, put it on a plate and keep aside.
- Put the satoimo into the pan used for the squid, add the remaining dashi stock and put this on a high heat (if the dashi stock isn't enough to cover the satoimo, add water).
- Bring to the boil, lower the heat to medium and put a drop-lid (otoshibuta) on top. Simmer for about 10 minutes until the satoimo are soft.
- Once the satoimo are soft, return the squid to the same pan. Simmer until there is no liquid remaining while shaking the pan. Boil the green vegetables (the string beans) with salt. Serve the simmered squid and satoimo, then decorate with the beans.
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